Special Deluxe Edition 2 LP-set, each 180 gram in a gatefold sleeve and CD plus additional M3 download coupon included! ----- Bosnian Rainbows is an American alternative rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2012. The band consists of former The Mars Volta members, Omar Rodr�guez-L�pez (guitar, backing vocals) and Deantoni Parks (drums, keyboards), alongside Le Butcherettes vocalist Teri Gender Bender and Nicci Kasper (keyboards)! In September 2012, Bosnian Rainbows embarked upon its first tour under the banner of the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, with Rodr�guez-L�pez noting, "The tour was booked five months before it happened, and it was going to be another solo tour, and then at some point, I decided to start a new group and have a team effort. So it got booked one way, but I try to make it clear every night that this is a new group, and these are the names of the players, and "thank you." "The band chose to rehearse at Clouds Hill Studios in Hamburg, Germany and also used the studio as a base for the tour. Rodriguez-Lopez and Johann Scheerer, founder of Clouds Hill first met in 2009 when recording for Johann's project Taka-Takaz. During the rehearsals Bosnian Rainbows recorded a live session, which was released on 10" vinyl and DVD as a part of Live at Clouds Hill limited edition box set in December 2012. After the European leg of the tour they returned to the studio to record their debut album. The album was recorded and produced by Scheerer and will be out June 28th 2013. Regarding the band's influences and aesthetic, Rodr�guez-L�pez noted, "These are very much shorter, more to-the-point songs [than The Mars Volta's]. They still have spaces that stretch out, but what I mean to say is that it�s all the same influences that have been in most of my writing and all the people in my bands� writing. Can is there, Siouxsie and the Banshees is there, Gang of Four is there, all the Led Zeppelin, whatever... all those things are there, it�s just different elements of those things. You make it shorter. It�s stripped down, it�s starker. The very melodic side of Can, the very textural side of Siouxsie. You take all those elements, and you take elements that maybe you weren�t exploring as much before." Bosnian Rainbows are: Omar Rodr�guez-L�pez - guitarist - At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Teri Gender Bender - singer - Le Butcherettes Deantoni Parks - drums/keys - KUDU, The Mars Volta, Dark Angels, John Cale Nicci Kasper - keys - Dark Angels + hip hop producer (KRS-ONE) Tracklisting Side A 1. Eli 2. Wothless 3. Dig Right In Me Sidfe B 4. The Eye Fell In Love 5. Cry For You 6. Morning Sickness Side C 7. Torn Maps 8. Turtle Neck 9. Always On The Run Side D 10. Red 11. Mother, Father, Set Us Free PRESS QUOTES: Rolling Stone / Second song, "Turtle Neck," premiere (2/11/13) - "Their new song �Turtle Neck� shimmers with wavy, lush guitars and unhurried percussion before shifting to sprawling textures and morphing tempos. It cuts loose in the second half, turning into a spacey post-hardcore assault of jagged chords and gut-punching drums." Associated Press (Mexico City) / Interview with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (2/14/13) - "Bosnian Rainbows is the result of four musicians gather leaders where we are all writers and producers and is a project which I can learn a lot, I'm in a band where everyone is equal," said Puerto Rican. "You can be an amazing musician, but when you leave your instrument, you're an insensitive person, then you have a lot to offer," he added. "The qualities I found in these three musicians leave the huge heart that are as people." [Google Translate] Louder Than War / Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group feat. Teri Gender Bender: London � live review / (10/16/12) - "I�m not interested in genre, I�m not interested in bands, I�m not interested in music scenes- I�m just interested in expression, and expression is constantly changing. You�re learning new things, new influences, language changes, body language changes over the years, we completely shed our skin every seven years as human beings, I�m more interested in that, the human thing�For me the bottom line is we we�re all born with amazing endless imagination and so we should all really utilize it at all moments possible, because we�re living in an age where not so far down the line those tools are going to be taken away from us and we�ll be subdued into one mass homogenized internet Starbucks culture."